mapping biking routes to downtown tacoma
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Presentation for WAURISA 2009 in Bellevue, WATRANSCRIPT
Mapping Biking Routes
to Downtown Tacoma
Michael Stoddard
City of Tacoma
WAURISA 2009
Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 15)
Part of National Bike Month
How can we encourage people
who work in downtown Tacoma
to bike to work?
A map can answer
important questions:
Where are the safest routes
(to downtown)?
Where are the easy to
moderately difficult routes
(to downtown)?
Intended audience:
beginners
Not experienced bicyclists
Might have safety concerns
Not in top shape
Existing maps ...
Do they answer our questions?
Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
Planned Trails
Planned Bike Lanes
Planned Connections
Streets
Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
These maps are great.
They illustrate:
Where you can bike
Where you can’t bike
Where you will be able to bike
But how can I get downtown?
So how can we map
safe routes that aren’t too hard?
Ask the bicyclists
The Tacoma Wheelmen's
Bicycle Club
Tacoma Wheelmen’s Mission
Founded in 1888, TWBC serves "to promote and develop safe bicycling for recreation, health and alternate transportation."
How can we capture the knowledge and experience of the Wheelmen?
a. GPSb. Drawing on paper maps
…
…
c.Bikely!
Auto-follow
road
Add
description
Export to
KML
Process
1. Tacoma Wheelmen draw routes in bikely
2. Export routes to KML
3. Convert routes from KML to shapefile
…
Process
…
4. Compose map with shapefiles, print
5. Meet with Wheelmen, mark up map
6. Edit map
7. Meet with Wheelmen, mark up map
8. Edit map
4. Compose map with shapefiles, print
5. Meet with Wheelmen, mark up map
existing bike
lanes
bike routes from
the Tacoma
Wheelmen
Notes from Jaime Crawford’s cartography workshop
When composing a map, you must know:
The purpose
The intended audience
The final format: size, medium
We know the purpose and intended
audience of the Tacoma bike map.
But what’s the final format?
Paper map of
to-be-determined size
Then it changed to ...
PDF map of
to-be-determined size
on a website to be named
Then it changed to ...
A bandana!
How do I design a map
for a bandana?
Cartography: labels, colors, features
Cartography: labels, colors, features
Road names only (no suffixes, prefixes, ...)
Cartography: labels, colors, features
Font: Arial Narrow
Cartography: labels, colors, features
Color palette from Portland Bike Map
Bike routes
Existing trails
Bike lanes/trails
Æü Park and rides
Parks
Cartography: labels, colors, features
Limit the features displayed on the map
The final product
The future
Mobility Master Plan
Presentation available on slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/mstoddard
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